First in Canada! Sunnybrook embraces SABR as standard of care

​Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre in Toronto will now be treating some men with prostate cancer with five sessions of high-dose radiation therapy instead of the previous 39 sessions, a first-in-Canada policy change. This follows years of research, including the most recent SABR Prostate Trial, funded by Prostate Cure Foundation (PCF) and its partners.

“This five-course treatment of radiation is easier for our patients, has fewer side effects and gives them a better quality of life,” says Dr. Andrew Loblaw, Chair of PCF and radiation oncologist at Odette Cancer Centre. “I believe that SABR will become the next standard of care across the country. Sunnybrook is first out of the gate.”

Dr. Loblaw and his team at Sunnybrook developed, refined and perfected the non-invasive SABR approach over the last 17 years. It involves five or fewer higher dose per day treatments, delivered with pinpoint precision to target tumours.

“The research shows that men who undergo five SABR treatments have better sexual and bladder function following treatment compared to brachytherapy,” says Dr. Loblaw. “For men with favourable-risk prostate cancer, SABR helps offer ‘a cure without compromise.’”

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